This book is the first of its kind to reflect upon the intense and rapidly growing interest in open geodesic polyaromatic molecules, specifically focusing on their synthesis and reactivity in metal binding reactions. The book broadly covers all aspects related to the fullerene fragment chemistry: current synthetic techniques, description of the available members of this new family (which has grown to more than two dozens members, with none being available commercially), molecular geometry and trends in the solid state packing, as well as extensions into physical properties and new buckybowl-based molecules and materials. It covers fundamental research related to a new class of hydrocarbons, namely open geodesic polyarenes that map onto the surfaces of fullerenes (and referred to as fullerene fragments or buckybowls.

Marina A. Petrukhina received her PhD from Moscow State
University in 1988 and is a Professor in the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Albany. She has published over 120
research papers in scientific journals. In 2006, she received the
NSF Career Award, a five-year grant to explore the reactivity and
coordination limits of open geodesic polyaromatic hydrocarbons
(buckybowls).

Lawrence T. Scott received his PhD from Harvard
University in 1970 and is a Professor at Boston College, where he
occupies the Louise and Jim Vanderslice and Family Chair in
Chemistry. He has published more than 200 research papers in
scientific journals and currently serves on the editorial advisory
boards for Polycyclic Aromatic Compounds and The Journal
of Organic Chemistry. In 2011, he received the George A.
Olah Award in Hydrocarbon Chemistry from the American Chemical
Society.

“Despite the many exciting papers published since this
book became available in 2012, this monograph will be a valuable
addition to any library, an enjoyable page turner for aficionados
of hydrocarbon chemistry, and a treasure trove for advanced
students of organic chemistry.” (Chemistry
International, 1 May 2013)

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